Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whether there should be an Anglo-American trade agreement, for such a step between the two richest nations in the world would carry more weight than all the 15 trade agreements' so far negotiated. Question No. 2 was whether Britain can afford to make a trade agreement and become dependent on the U. S. for supplies which will be denied her by U. S. neutrality laws if an enemy attacks...
...appealing to the National Labor Relations Board which would order an election. Making peace as well as making war was part of John L. Lewis' strategy. In Detroit a 24-day strike of Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corp., makers of parts for Ford and others, was settled with an agreement to boost minimum wages from 50^ to 65^ an hour. In Pittsburgh the gS-day strike of Pittsburgh Plate Glass workers was settled with an agreement to boost wages 8/ an hour, establish a minimum wage of 63^ an hour. Libbey-Owens-Ford glass workers on strike for five weeks...
...policy (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931 et seq.}, the spunky Military have successfully taken the offensive against Japan's civilian government. A renascence of sword-flourishing nationalism, fostered by the Army leaders has swept over Japan and has just been given still more punch by the Japanese-German agreement to fight Communism (TIME, Dec. 7) and by the even more recent Japanese-Italian accord in which Japan recognized Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia. Last week the Japanese Diet gathered for its 1937 session and called on the carpet before Japan's politicians were Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita...
...Roosevelt does anything to curb the flow of foreign investment, he may make some informal agreement with Europe whereby some of the European earnings from investment here will be applied to settle the war-debt account. At present European governments, for various purposes, are anxious to tap the abundant reserves of American capital and seek new loans from Washington and Wall Street...
...rumors'" barked onetime Editor Mussolini at Publisher Hitler's correspondent, "No! There is nothing that will change. On the contrary the British-Italian Mediterranean agreement will only strengthen the action of Berlin and Rome! It is the logical result of our efforts to create peace in Europe...